Madden23

EA has announced the first set of Madden NFL 23 gameplay details, and this year's Gridiron sim is heavily based on a new mechanic called FieldSense.

“Coach stands for authentic eleven-vs-eleven football,” says senior producer Mike Maher. “That caused us to go back and look at what inspired him, and EA, to partner originally. According to EA, 360-degree cuts offer extra control to running backs, while the option to ‘Hit Everything’ on defense triggers more turnovers and multi-player pile-ups. Developed in response to feedback from fans, the new gameplay system introduces four specific elements to Madden 23.

Year Three in the new generation of consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S) is bringing changes to Madden NFL that may end up proving to be revolutionary.

EA is also revamping the passing game with a Skill Based Passing, "a new way to pass that offers players the ultimate control to place the ball exactly where they want, with the power they want." The new gameplay system will be coupled with improvements to zone coverage, pass rush and containing mobile quarterbacks. EA Sports announced the implementation of new mechanics the company is calling 360 Cuts, "giving players the ability to change direction on a dime while controlling ball-carriers."

With Madden 23, fans can expect a ton of changes to Foundational Football including what EA is calling the FieldSENSE™ Gameplay System.

For Madden NFL 23 we focused on adding the core plays and concepts each NFL team used the most, which resulted in more concise and slightly smaller playbooks that are more team specific and unique. In addition to this, we’ve added more signature animations to celebration locomotion so players will run into the endzone more like their real life counterparts. We’ve also improved the prediction AI for contain players so they’ll be more responsive in anticipating when the QB is going to take off so they can react quicker and get themselves in the proper position to make a play. This means that each lane will be filled by a rusher while avoiding having multiple rushers in a single gap, which would essentially allow those defenders to block themselves and take them out of the play. These new plays will complement the improvements to our deep zone pass coverage. What we have truly created this year is a larger, pass defense initiative for Madden NFL 23 by fine-tuning our pass rush to increase pressure and refining disengage efforts from defenders to deal with mobile quarterbacks. Zones that are supposed to take away specific routes or areas of the field will now break on the throw faster versus those routes than they will against routes their zones are not designed to take away. This coincides with tuning on how far defenders are allowed to see the ball when not facing it and promotes more organic mid-air interactions at the catch point, via our FieldSENSE Hit Everything branching technology and mechanics. Not only will defensive backs look the part, but these new movement animations also get them to where they want to go with more efficiency, which will make passing windows against zone coverage much tighter. Drift Logic allows the defender to recognize a receiver approaching his zone sooner, plaster him in coverage as he crosses his face, and not get beat underneath. The Foundational Football Gridiron Notes starts with the areas of gameplay players reported to matter most: pass coverage, pass rush, and QB Contain, to deliver a more balanced gameplay experience. Simply flipping the Zone Coverage Coach Adjustment to ‘Match’ will bring back our in-depth ruleset for match coverages, those that convert from zone to man during the play, when specifically calling the match coverage play types.